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The sciences have their technical jargons – indispensable to the researcher and to some extent even to the amateur. Since the former must teach the latter, it has sometimes been thought that an understanding of nature can be gained only by learning words.
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Gaither, C.C., Cavazos-Gaither, A.E. (2012). J. In: Gaither, C., Cavazos-Gaither, A. (eds) Gaither's Dictionary of Scientific Quotations. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-1114-7_10
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